Expand Provisioning capabilities

[ehazlett]

This will enable the provisioning capabilities for other base distributions besides boot2docker and Ubuntu. For example, RedHat like distributions.

[flavio]

Hi, where is this work being done? I would like to help adding SUSE/openSUSE support.

[ehazlett]

@flavio not yet -- i was planning on starting on centos/fedora this week.

[flavio]

Any update on this topic?

[ehazlett]

@flavio #1090

[jiangshengwu]

Looking forward to CentOS support, and maybe os-release shouldn't be the only way to detect operating system.

[ehazlett]

@jiangshengwu what else would you suggest?

[jiangshengwu]

@ehazlett As you've been working on the expanding of provision, maybe you've noticed that some linux release versions don't have os-release. Such as CentOS6.x or 7, but centos-release instead.

Other ways of release version detection can be useful: redhat-release or lsb_release command which is more universal.

[ehazlett]

@jiangshengwu ah i see -- thanks -- we'll keep it in mind :)

[Tritlo]

could we get support for the default AWS Linux?